Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1884 — Quintuple Murder and Suicide. [ARTICLE]

Quintuple Murder and Suicide.

[Albany (N. Y.) Dispatch]. Caroline Scheifer, aged 33, quarreled with her husband, Christopher, over the loss of a bank-book representing a deposit of over S3OO. The husband left home about 7:30 and returned at 10, finding the honse dark and his wife gone. In the bedrbom he discovered their children, Henry, aged 7, Annie, 5, and John, 3, with their throats cut, and also the baby, William, 9 months old, dead in a crib. After murdering the children the mother took the girl Mattie, aged 9, in her arms, walked throngh the fields back of the honse to the Central Railroad tracks, at the place known as Black Rock cut, and threw herself and child in front of an advancing train. The woman was cut to pieces. One arm and a leg of the child were horribly crushed. The woman was Scheifer’s second wife, but was the mother of five children. The husband is nearly crazy over the deed. The family lived in comfortable circumstances on Third street. Miss Claba Barton is closing the season’s work of the Red Cross Society by distributing a steamboat-load of household goods and building material at the upper end of the Ohio River. A wildcat measuring five feet four inches from the nose to the tail, and two feet six inches high, was killed recently near Brown wood, Texas, by a onr dog.